Device for holding and manipulating tickets



(No Model.)

A. A. LOW.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING AND MANIPULATING TICKETS, &o. No. 439,784. Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

lll l I m '1 UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING AND MANIPULATING TICKETS, 800.

n SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,784, dated November 4, 1890.

Application filed November 13, 1889- Serial No. 330,225. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABBOT AUGUSTUS Low, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Device for Holding and Manipulating Tickets, &c., of which the following is a specification to enable others skilled in the art to which the invention appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to devices adapted to the holding and manipulation of tickets, coupons, bills, cards, and similar articles which are required to be held or filed away in bunches or packages, from or into which packages it is desirable from time to time to remove or insert one or more tickets or papers from or into various positions in the package.

The object of my invention is to afford a means for readily and conveniently separating the tickets or papers in a package at any given part thereof either for the purpose of cutting off one or more tickets or papers from the main body or spreading apart the tickets composing'the latter for the insertion or removal of a ticket or paperin a prescribed relation to the others, the manipulator at the same time being adapted to perform the functions of a holder or retaining plate for the tickets or papers when not in active use, as aforesaid.

My invention consists, primarily, in an elongated plate of suitable material which is adapted to act as a wedge for insertion between the tickets or papers composing a package held together by rubber bands or other similar and well-known means of retaining such articles in a bunch. To this end the wedge or plate may be made pointed or tapering for either a portion or the whole of its length, to facilitate its entrance between the tickets or papers.

A secondary feature of my invention consists in forming the Wedge with a longitudinal slot or opening for the purpose of affording access for the fingers to the rear or inner sides of the tickets or papers separated by the wedge to enable them to be conveniently grasped and removed.

A third feature consists in forming the wedge-plate with one or more laterally-projecting shoulders, adapted to engage the end of a ticket or paper and facilitate its insertion with the wedge into position between the other tickets or papers composing thebunch, the wedge being thus used as a carrier or ve hicle for theinsertion 0f the tickets or papers, as well as to effect their removal. In performing the latter function it is used'to cut off or isolate one or more of the tickets or papers from the rest, when the actual removal may be effected more quickly and conveniently than heretofore and without danger of dis turbing the remaining tickets or papers.

In the accompanying drawings I show a simple and effective construction of my device, which may, however, be modified some-' what in form and detail without departing from the spirit and design of my invention.

Figure 1 shows a side elevation of my improved ticketmanipulator and holder; Fig. 2, an edge elevation of the same; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section upon" the plane of line 00 00, Fig. 1; Fig. 4C, a similar view showing the wedge-shape extending the whole length of the plate; Fig. 5, a view illustrating the insertion and removal of a ticket or paper from the central portion of a bunch or parcel; Fig. 6, a view illustrating the use of the device simply as a ticket or paper holder; Fig. 7, a similar view in elevation at right angles to Fig. 6; Figs. 8 and 9, views illustrating the cut-off of a ticket or paper from the rest of the package; Fig. 10, a view illustrating the use of the wedge as a vehicle for inserting or removing a ticket or paper into or from the central portion of a bunch or package.

The plate A is formed of any suitable material affording the necessary degree of rigidity, combined, preferably, with comparative lightness. One end is narrowed down to an edge a, from which the tapering sides a a extend upward either the whole of the length of the plate A, as shown in Fig. 4, or only for a portion of the length, as shown in the otherfigures.

Au elongated opening or slot B isformed in the body of the plate A, extending in alongitudinal direction. This slotforms a means of holding the device by inserting the finger therein, or of hanging up the device and its bundle of tickets or papers when not in use. It also facilitates the removal of the tickets or papers by permitting of the insertion of the finger underneath or between them, the form ICO of plate shown in Fig. 4: being especially adapted to the latter purpose on account of the increasing thickness of the wedge, which spreads the tickets farther apart at the upper end.

The upper end of the wedge plate A is formed with transverse lateral shoulders,

' which are adapted to engage with and protect the end of a ticket or paper placed against the side of the plate, as shown in Fig. 10, the plate in this case being used as a carrier or placer for the ticket or paper when it is desired to insert such article into a definite position be tween the other tickets or papers constituting thebunch.

DD represent the series of tickets or papers, and E E the rubber bands used for holding the parts of the bunches or packages together.

The practical use of the device in removing tickets will be readily understood by reference to Figs. 5, 8, and 9. In Fig. 5the wedgeplate isused to spread apart or open the bundle of tickets so as to admit of the ready removal of one situated near the center of the bundle, while in Figs. 8 and=9 the operation of cutting off and separating a single ticket from the outside of the bundle is illustrated.

What I claim as my invention, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A device for holding and manipulating tickets, papers, &c., consisting of the plate-A,

formed with converging longitudinal edges and with the wedge-shaped end a, for the purpose and substantially as set forth.

2. A device for holding'and manipulating tickets, papers, 850., substantially as and for the purpose set forth, consisting of the plate A, formed with the wedge-shaped end a and with the elongated finger-slot B, substantially as shown and described. r

3. A device for holding and manipulating tickets, papers, 850., substantially as and for the purpose set forth, consisting of the plate A, the sides a a of which converge throughout their entire length to form the wedgeshaped end a, substantially as shown.

4. A device for holding and manipulating tickets, papers, &c., substantially as and for the purpose set forth, consisting of the plate A, formed with the wedge-shaped edge a and with one or more lateral shoulders c, substantially as shown and described.

5. A device for holding. and manipulating tickets, papers, 850., substantially as and for the purpose set forth, formed of a single piece or plate A, having the wedge-shaped end a, longitudinal slot B, and lateral shoulder a, substantially as shown and described.

ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW.

Witnesses:

D. W. GARDNER, WM. A. PoLLocK. 

